I'm taking a wild guess here, but are you a local resident of non-brown complexion with sufficient funds?
I'm sure the area is absolutely rammed with 'hard-working families' but you don't see them because the buggers are working hard. The fashionably unfashionable, however, are highly visible.
Many upper middle class younger people do 'basic' jobs but live a far more expensive lifestyle subsidised by bank of Mum and Dad though...